official i love music thread for AEROPLANE

go ahead! i was going to but i hate starting threads on new artists, they always seem to end up in tumbleweeds

weird

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xp, at least you and tim will show up for the party...

this new OST & KJEX album makes me really happy.

" late for the July Mix ! Trying to do something a bit different... Ripping vinyls ... Will be there by the week end ! All my apologies..."

perhaps everyone here is just behind the curve. maybe zane lowe really does know: "‎" Superstar " played by Zane Lowe yesterday on BBC Radio 1. Comparing it to Alan Parson's " The Raven " or " an heavy version of AIR " or even compared it to Muse !! With no irony I want to thank him for really understanding that song !"

also sounds like he's had it rough the last few days. poor vito.

Well, to get Alan Parsons' The Raven when you're expecting Proxy's The Raven is a bit of a stretch.

wonder if WOS will package the album with an extra cd of remixes, even if its just a limited run.
that way, its a guaranteed seller.

also sounds like he's had it rough the last few days. poor vito.

he does sound delirious

Second album will come out in a year and be a stone cold classic recorded on a tenth of the budget.

I can see this album being one of those that flops when it comes out and then gets critically reassessed a few years later. Agreed a remixes two-fer would make it more essential, a la LCD Soundsystem.

isn't it hard to license a cd of remixes as the copyright stays with the original artists or.. something? like the LCD 2-fer was their own work, and then a 2nd cd of more of their own extended 12"s of their own stuff/ early singles. i guess it'd be pretty easy if all the remixed artists were on the same label or what have you. i'm sure someone on here is an expert.

that's what i was thinking - even with the tiefschwarz misch masch, it wouldn't have had their kelis remix on it. plus now, a lot more than when the misch masch series was going, these remixes are already so widely available...

mungolian jetset packaged a second disc of remixes

Ulrich Schnauss's remix album omitted most of his best mixes so presumably there were a few licensing problems there. Either that or he doesn't know up from down. The Aphex Twin remix album, on the other hand, had about 95% of his output.

Did that Tiefschwarz Kelis mix ever come out? That would be the problem for Aeroplane's rejected MGMT remix. The way people consume remixes now, it's hard to tell which ones are official.

Isn't the Mungolian Jetset album entirely remixes?

there's a first disc of originals

afaik

No, only Creepy and Madre Epics Pt. 2 are originals. The others are ostensibly remixes but there's so little of the originals in some of them that they might as well be Mungolian Jet Set's own tracks.

ahhhh never knew that

Did that Tiefschwarz Kelis mix ever come out?

ah it was never official, just a white label a/c to discogs - http://www.discogs.com/Kelis-Trick-Me-Tiefschwarz-Mix/release/356427

i assume grace jones has changed her mind about the "williams blood" remix by now?

Wasn't the Could You Be Loved track basically MJS under the name Pizzy Yelliot?

this guardian write-up makes the album sound kind of amazing:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2010/jul/28/new-band-aeroplane

Until Elton John and Jim Steinman decide to make a rock-disco album with Lindstrom, this will have to do.

?!

I read that Paul Lester column just about every day, and he's dead wrong as often as he's right.

I think I might be so desperate to like this album once I hear it that I'll take absolutely any positive feedback on it as proof that ya'll are wrong. Secretly I know you'll probably be right.

we'll all look so provincial when this blows up and vito has a number one album and is scoring the remake of 'dirty dancing' or something.

oh no, it's cool, i'll like the album by that point.

20 years out of date but totally ahead of its time.

I don't think I'll ever like it, because I appreciate what he was going for but think he failed miserably at it. Like, there are other bands who make GREAT records like this without even trying, but he worked on it for 18 months and still never got it right. I like Vito, I guess. I like the Aeroplane remixes. I think he should NEVER write and record original material ever again.

srsly, maybe the other guy was the taleented one.

other guy was basically "vibe consultant" not studio bod though, iiuc

sounds like Vito just wanted a home-listening record to be completely different to a dancefloor 12", but of course no-one else was expecting his idea of a home-listening record. Give us an amazing extended mix of We Can't Fly and let's call it even.

Having been primed by everyone's disappointment, the OTT Graun review, and Kate's tantalising Jesus Cerrone Superstar line, is it possible I could actually love this album on it's own terms?

contrariness can lead people to anything.

haha, I like/love a lot of stuff that a lot of people dislike/hate. So I'm kind of hoping someone somewhere loves this album. It's just not going to be me.

although the gaurdian review is not contrariness, it's just the cluelessness of some old guy trying to be hip, i think?

maybe it's possibe that someone thinks it "BONKERS" (as he says) in a good way, i dunno.

i'll be honest, that paul lester write up really makes me want this album.
but then i have been on a golden era ZTT trip of late.
the trevor horn styled production excess on we cant fly did it for me, so a whole album of such madness will probably suit me just fine.

I really fucking hate the undercurrent of snotty dismissiveness of those Paul Lester columns, it's like whenever he's outside his comfort zone his pieces are drenched in "you're probably not going to like this so let's just have a lol". His Lady Chann piece made me wonder why they don't just rotate the column among writers who know what they're talking about.

^ would be a great idea.

Anyway, as to the ZTT/Trevor Horn aspect of this album: there really isn't one. That's a completely bullshit comparison. Horn made songs (both good and bad) sound MASSIVE. The Aeroplane album sounds hacked together with reverb fx to make things artificially large.

yeah the lester article reeks of someone skipping through the album one time only, having a chuckle, isn't sure if it's good or not because he doesn't understand this new-fangled modern music thing, remembers the scissor sister getting some acclaim so thinks fuck it and bigs it up from a bizarrely wrongheaded fairground disco/rock opera POV. he's an awful awful writer, one of the very worst on the guardian.

Nothing stopping a remix collection I reckon: DJ Koze's comp from last year was excellent.

Eh? I don't get that column. In what sense are Aeroplane a "new band"?

I really fucking hate the undercurrent of snotty dismissiveness of those Paul Lester columns, it's like whenever he's outside his comfort zone his pieces are drenched in "you're probably not going to like this so let's just have a lol". His Lady Chann piece made me wonder why they don't just rotate the column among writers who know what they're talking about.

errm i think overblown pomp IS lester's comfort zone, this is the guy whose favourite album ever is a wizard, a true star.

i haven't heard the aeroplane album yet but he's made it sound appealing to me...

new band with one member... i guess you're not really a band until you put an album out.

Seems a willfully rockist and retro definition to apply to a dance artist but hey it's Paul Lester. What do I expect? ;-)

it is the guardian, not resident advisor

this guardian write-up makes the album sound kind of amazing

One should always take Lester with a massive pinch of salt, but actually all the descriptions on this thread, including from ppl who are slagging it off, make me want to hear this. (Full disclosure: involvement of Bertrand Burgalat is a selling point for me, not a "Run away, run away!" signal)

i've found it's often the case, you can rave about how good something is until your mouth runs dry and no one will pick you up on it, but the minute you start frothing about how BAD it is literally everyone rushes to check it out